You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEI am the primitive of the method I have invented.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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